
International Women's Day 2023
Collectively we can all #EmbraceEquity.
Published: 8th Mar 2023
Susan has been a barrister practising in civil law for over 27 years. She did her pupillage at 13 King’s Bench Walk in 1994-95 and practised there for 19 years before moving to 42 Bedford Row in 2014. She specialises in employment law, public law, inquests and personal injury/ clinical negligence claims. She was on the Attorney-General’s panel of Civil Treasury Counsel for 16 years including 5 years on the highest ‘A’ panel, during which she acted for the government in many hundreds of public law challenges, employment cases and inquests.
Susan has extensive experience of advising and representing claimants and respondents in all areas of employment law, particularly in discrimination and whistleblowing claims. Her practice is conducted predominantly in employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Reported cases
BA (Hons) Law from Magdalen College, Oxford (1993).
Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law (1994)
Collectively we can all #EmbraceEquity.
Published: 8th Mar 2023
Susan Chan and Andrew Carter present this webinar on anonymity orders in the Employment Tribunals
Published: 19th Dec 2022
Published: 6th Feb 2020
This week Susan Chan of 42BR has appeared for the Lord Chancellor in the second judicial review challenge to the employment tribunal fees system brought by the union Unison. A year ago Susan successfully defended the tribunal fees scheme against Unison’s first challenge, which was backed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Published: 23rd Oct 2014
Judgment was handed down on 23rd May 2014 in the first judicial review claim against the Judicial Appointments Commission to be heard by a court: Jones v Judicial Appointments Commission [2014] EWH 1680 (Admin). Susan Chan of 42BR acted as sole counsel for the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC). Mr Jones was represented by Jonathan Swift QC.
Published: 27th May 2014